Aged Care Quotes

“Being a carer is about making mistakes. Like a mother who learns the ropes of motherhood with her first newborn, a carer learns on the job and more often than not gets it wrong.”
― Vanessa de Largie

“Lizzie understood too well the focus on the task. The bottom to be washed, the bed to be changed, human attentions lost to overwork and time management. What must it be like to work in such a place thought Lizzie, not one of her patients was ever going home, no-one would recover, or resume their lives, and when they went, another with the same fate would replace them.”
― Trish Bolton, Whenever You're Ready

“It always felt strange that life outside went on, thought Lizzie, after saying goodbye to her mother, there was so much sorrow within those four walls, she wondered how it could possibly be contained, it must surely seep out under doors, escape through an open window, any chink or gap, the sadness affecting passers by, causing them to stop for a moment, and think of those hidden from view.”
― Trish Bolton, Whenever You're Ready